Biology:Cobble elimia

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Short description: Species of gastropod

Cobble elimia
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.175299 - Elimia vanuxemiana (Lea, 1843) - Pleuroceridae - Mollusc shell.jpeg

Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Pleuroceridae
Genus: Elimia
Species:
E. vanuxemiana
Binomial name
Elimia vanuxemiana
I. Lea, 1843
Synonyms[3]
  • Melania rubicunda Goniobasis negata
  • I. Lea, 1862 I. Lea, 1845
  • I. Lea, 1861 Melania vanuxemiana
  • Melania pergrata I. Lea, 1843
  • Melania arctata I. Lea, 1861
  • Reeve, 1861 Melania vanuxemiana var. fragosa

The cobble elimia, scientific name Elimia vanuxemiana, is a species of freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod molluscs with an operculum in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States.[2]

As of 2000, the species was considered extinct by the IUCN.[1] It was rediscovered in the wild in 2005,[4] but is still considered critically imperiled.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q308622 entry